The 24th Cup was played for the third time at Golf Club Narita Hightree in Chiba Prefecture. The event was played in beautiful spring weather, sunny all day with nice colors.
The individual winner (best net) was Tuomo Kuuppo (FCCJ) with a net 66 (gross 86). Kuuppo also won the FCCJ Golf Cup. Second was Hiroaki Sugawara (FCCJ), net 76 (gross 93) and third Marko Saarelainen (FCCJ), net 77 (gross 101). Gösta Tyrefors was fourth and the best net (79) in the Swedish team and took the SCCJ Spring Golf Cup.
Best gross was Tuomo Kuuppo (FCCJ) with 86, second Tomoichi Onishi (SCCJ) 89 and third Hiroaki Sugawara (FCCJ) 93.
For full results, see below.
The winners of the longest drive were Masaoki Fujita (FCCJ) on No. 5 and Tuomo Kuuppo (FCCJ) on No. 13.
The near pin winners were: Shuichi Kawai, FCCJ (no. 4), Kunihiro Okuda, FCCJ (no. 7), Fujio Ota, SCCJ (no. 15) and Tuomo Kuuppo, FCCJ (no. 17). No-one got on the green on hole no. 8.

We would like to thank the title sponsor Stora Enso Japan as well as all the players (and their companies) who brought nice prizes to the competition. Our thanks go also to the G.C. Narita Hightree and their staff for helping us making this a great event at reasonable costs and FCCJ Board Member Masaoki Fujita of Coil Center Fujita for coordinating the event and our special thanks to Morioki Fujita (father of Masaoki Fujita and President of the club) for giving 20 fresh eggs from a nearby farm to each participant!

INDIVIDUAL RESULTS

Pos.

Player

Company

Team

HCP

Gross

Net

1.

Tuomo Kuuppo

Stora Enso Japan K.K.

FCCJ

20

86

66

2.

Hiroaki Sugawara

Finn Corporation

FCCJ

17

93

76

3.

Marko Saarelainen

Honka Japan Inc.

FCCJ

24

101

77

4.

Gösta Tyrefors

Gadelius Holding Ltd.

SCCJ

18

97

79

5.

Naota Kusumi

Stora Enso Japan K.K.

FCCJ

21

100

79

6.

Nobuhiko Miyaji

IFS Japan

SCCJ

13

93

80

7.

Masaoki Fujita

Coil Center Fujita Co., Ltd.

FCCJ

17

97

80

8.

Yutaka Chiba

Western Associates

FCCJ

23

103

80

9.

Tomoichi Onishi

Western Associates

FCCJ

7

89

82

10.

Tsuyoshi Hirao

Sweden House Co., Ltd.

SCCJ

23

105

82

11.

Sueaki Sato

Beauty Pollen

SCCJ

26

108

82

12.

Yoshihisa Ikeda

Gadelius Holding Ltd.

SCCJ

16

99

83

13.

Fujio Ota

Individual member

SCCJ

19

103

84

14.

Morioki Fujita

Coil Center Fujita Co., Ltd.

FCCJ

17

102

85

15.

Eiji Takagi

Individual member

SCCJ

11

97

86

16.

Timo Varhama

Vision Hunters Ltd. Oy

FCCJ

24

110

86

17.

Sakari Romu

Finnair

FCCJ

8

95

87

18.

Lars Vargö

Swedish Ambassador

SCCJ

24

111

87

19.

Örjan Pettersson

Thule

SCCJ

29

116

87

20.

Leif Nilsson

SAS

SCCJ

22

110

88

21.

Stefan Gustafsson

IFS Japan Inc.

SCCJ

25

114

89

22.

Keizo Mori

IFS Japan

SCCJ

18

108

90

23.

Shuichi Kawai

Coil Center Fujita Co., Ltd.

FCCJ

8

99

91

24.

Clas G. Bystedt

FCCJ

FCCJ

25

117

92

25.

Juha Korpinen

Finpro/Sendai Finland WBC

FCCJ

17

111

94

26.

Nobuyuki Henmi

Western Associates

FCCJ

18

112

94

27.

Jan Sandström

Ericsson

SCCJ

22

116

94

28.

Noriyuki Kaneko

Beauty Pollen

SCCJ

26

123

97

29.

Takeshi Fujiwara

Individual member

SCCJ

30

129

99

Guest

Jouni Asiakainen

Brenntag Asia Pacific

FCCJ

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88

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Note: if players have same net, the one with lower handicap wins, if still same, the older player wins.

Eiji Takagi's quite long second shot after the duff on the par-3 No. 8.

Also Sakari Romu ended up with a long second shot onthe par-3 No. 8.

Group 5 on the 9th green.

Örjan Pettersson's almost last putt of the day on No. 9.

Food and prizes in the party room.

Many prizes to choose from.

Marko Saarelainen and Tuomo Kuuppo try to decide how to be seated.

All partcipants seated.

Enjoying food and drinks.

Eiji Takagi of SCCJ starts the prize ceremony.

Morioki Fujita, club President and the provider of the eggs. Standing behind, Masaoki Fujita. (apologies for the blurred image)

FCCJ President Marko Saarelainen presents the FCCJ Golf Cup to Tuomo Kuuppo, the indidividual winner of the competition. Kuuppo was also bet gross (86) and won longest drive on no. 13 and near pin on no. 13.